I'm traveling in New Zealand at the moment and whilst taking a stroll along the coast of Wellington came across a bloke fishing. He was sitting on a contraption which looked a bit like a hand truck but with a large motorised drum.
I got taking to him and he explained the setup. A remote controlled torpedo with a couple of hundred meters of line attached and hanging from this were 23 hooks and two sinkers.
He even brought it in for a closer look. Better still he told me his wife bought it for his birthday!

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He was chasing snapper and a couple of other species that I didn't recognize.
Anyone heard or seen of these in OZ?

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When we were in the North Island a few years ago we got talking to a retired farmer who fished with one of these off the west coast. Used it to catch snapper.
Also talked to a guy on the beach at Tauranga who paddled a kayak out in amazing conditions about 500m from shore with a massive collection of baited hooks on board attached to a very large hand winch on the beach. They would leave the line out for several hours and then (hopefully) wind in a catch from the beach.

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